Mental Funeral
Mental Funeral is the second album by American death metal band Autopsy, released on 22 April 1991 through Peaceville. It followed Severed Survival and carries on in the same vein, folding doom metal into death metal's brutality. The band recorded it at Different Fur Studios in San Francisco, and they have said that very little mixing was done, which fits its raw, unpolished character.
Bathory is among the extreme metal acts whose influence runs through the music, while the lyrics dwell on gruesome subjects such as necrophilia. Listeners were divided when it first appeared, but opinion has shifted a great deal since. It is now regarded as one of the most influential albums in death metal's history, and it is a good place to start if you want to hear where the genre's murkier, slower side took shape.
Mental Funeral: tracklist and credits
12 tracks · 38:26Tracklist
- 1Twisted Mass of Burnt DecayAutopsy and Chris Reifert2:14
- 2In the Grip of WinterAutopsy, Coralles, Cutler, Reifert4:09
- 3FleshcrawlAutopsy and Chris Reifert0:35
- 4Torn From the WombAutopsy and Chris Reifert3:19
- 5SlaughterdayAutopsy and Eric Cutler4:13
- 6DeadAutopsy and Chris Reifert3:37
- 7Robbing the GraveAutopsy and Chris Reifert4:20
- 8Hole in the HeadAutopsy and Chris Reifert6:03
- 9Destined to FesterAutopsy and Chris Reifert4:33
- 10BonesawAutopsy and Chris Reifert0:46
- 11Dark CrusadeAutopsy and Chris Reifert4:02
- 12Mental FuneralAutopsy and Chris Reifert0:32
- Produced by
- Autopsy, Paul Halmshaw, Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw
- Recorded at
- Different Fur Studios (San Francisco, California, USA), San Francisco
- Recorded
- 20–26 November 1990
- Engineered by
- Ron Rigler
- Labels
- Peaceville, Peaceville Records
- Length
- 38:26
Line-up
- Danny Coralles · guitar, vocals
- Eric Cutler · guitar, vocals
- Steve Cutler · bass
- Chris Reifert · drums (drum set), vocals
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How we know the release date wikipedia + musicbrainz
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 22 April 1991 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 22 April 1991 | |
| Wikidata | 1991 | |
| UK / Europe release | 22 April 1991 | earliest UK or European date |
10 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | XW | Peaceville | 801056735324 | other |
| 1991 | GB | Peaceville | 5016557502510 | other |
| April 1991 | XE | Peaceville | 5016557502527 | other |
| 22 April 1991 | GB | Peaceville | 5016557502527 | original |
| 22 April 1991 | GB | Peaceville | original | |
| April 1992 | US | Peaceville | 017046402521 | other |
| 24 March 2003 | GB | Peaceville | 801056702524 | other |
| 17 October 2011 | GB | Peaceville | 801056735324 | other |
| 2015 | GB | Peaceville | 801056802514 | remaster |
| — | — | — | other |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |
| coverartarchive | 953×953 | upscaled |